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Landforms named Bee, Wasp and Hornet
Landforms named Bee, Wasp and Hornet are natural features with insect-derived names, from Bee Mountain in Texas to Antarctic Wasp Hill, which actually commemorates a sealing schooner.
Landscape after mining
Landscape after mining, or post-mining landscape (German Bergbaufolgelandschaft), is land altered by mining and reshaped by reclamation; marked by erosion, acid mine drainage, and restoration toward self-sustaining ecosystems.
Langjökull
Langjökull ("Long Glacier") is Iceland's second largest ice cap, ~900 km² in the central western highlands. Two LIA advances (1400–1550, 1680–1890); 29% volume lost since 1890; hosts the man-made Into the Glacier tunnel.
Langkawi
Langkawi: 99-island archipelago and duty-free resort in Kedah, northwest Peninsular Malaysia; main island Pulau Langkawi, 478.5 km2, home of Southeast Asia's first UNESCO Global Geopark (2007) and LADA-managed tourism.
Lanin
Lanin (Lanín) is a 3,776-m symmetrical stratovolcano on the Chile-Argentina border, eastern end of the Villarrica-Quetrupillán-Lanín chain, bimodal basalt-dacite magmatism, no historical eruptions, last known eruption 560 CE.
Lanzarote
Lanzarote, easternmost Canary Island (Spain), volcanic island of 845 km² shaped by the 1730–1736 Timanfaya eruption; UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1993 and Geopark since 2015; tourism-led economy with 8.9M airport passengers in 2025.
Lapland (landform)
Lapland (landform): northern Fennoscandian upland and tundra region on the Fennoscandian Shield, also called Sápmi; includes Finnish Lapland (100,366 km2) and the Swedish Laponian Area, shaped by glaciation and palsa permafrost.
Laramidia
Laramidia, the western Late Cretaceous landmass of North America formed by the Western Interior Seaway (about 95–68 Ma), hosted a major dinosaur radiation including ceratopsids and debated northern and southern faunal provinces, distinct from eastern Appalachia.
Larsen Ice Shelf
Larsen Ice Shelf: ice shelf system on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula (Larsen A–D, Weddell Sea). Larsen A collapsed 1995, Larsen B 2002 via meltpond hydrofracture; Larsen C calved A68 in 2017.
Las Vegas Valley
Las Vegas Valley: structural basin in Clark County, Nevada, also called the Las Vegas basin, holding up to 5,000 feet of valley-fill aquifer sediments; bounded by Sheep, McCullough, and other ranges; home to about 2 million people.
Lassiter Coast
Lassiter Coast is the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula from Cape Mackintosh to Cape Adams, on the Weddell Sea side of southern Palmer Land, named in 1947 for pilot James W. Lassiter.
Lastarria
Lastarria is a 5,706 m stratovolcano on the Chile-Argentina border in the Central Volcanic Zone, with no historical eruptions but persistent fumaroles, sulphur flows, and Lazufre ground uplift since 1998.
Latady Island
Latady Island: ice-covered Antarctic island in the Bellingshausen Sea at 70°45′S 74°35′W, west of Alexander Island, about 80 km south of Charcot Island; covered by BAS 2025 regional maps.
Latady Mountains
Latady Mountains: mountain group at 74°45′S 64°18′W on the southern Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula; namesake of the Upper Jurassic Latady Formation and the Latady Basin's Latady Group.
Laughing Bird Cay
Laughing Bird Cay (Laughing Bird Caye) is a 1.4-acre Belizean island on a coral faro 11 miles off Placencia, Stann Creek District, the core of Laughing Bird Caye National Park, a no-take UNESCO World Heritage component known for Fragments of Hope coral restoration; a same-named island exists in Eleuthera, Bahamas.
Laurentian Upland
The Laurentian Upland is a physiographic division of the United States, area 1 of eight in the Fenneman and USGS scheme, comprising the Canadian Shield's exposed portions.
Laurentides
Laurentides (Laurentians) names both an ancient eroded mountain range in southern Quebec, formed by the Grenvillian orogeny within the Grenville Province, and the Quebec tourist region of 20,548 km2 with Mont-Tremblant park and about 2.1 G$ in annual tourism spending.
Lautaro
Lautaro (Volcán Lautaro) is an ice-covered dacitic stratovolcano, the northernmost and highest volcano of the Andes' Austral Volcanic Zone, on the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, Chile; last erupted 1979, active since ca. 0.17 Ma.
Lava area
Lava area: a mapped terrain feature, GeoNames code T.LAVA, defined as an area of solidified lava; 485 such entries exist, formed by basaltic to rhyolitic lava flows.
Lava Beds National Monument
Lava Beds National Monument, established 1925 in northeastern California on Medicine Lake volcano's north flank, protects over 800 lava-tube caves, Modoc rock art, and Captain Jack's Stronghold from the 1872-73 Modoc War.
Lava River Cave
Lava River Cave near Bend, Oregon, also called Dillman Cave, is a mile-long lava tube in Newberry National Volcanic Monument, formed about 65,000 years ago, Oregon's longest uncollapsed lava tube, holding 42°F year-round; distinct from the Arizona namesake near Flagstaff.
Låvebrua Island
Låvebrua Island is a 95-metre-high islet 1.3 km east of South Point, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands; named by Norwegian whalers after 1905, also called Islote Chaco (Argentina) and Islote Lautaro (Chile).
Lavoisier Island
Lavoisier Island, also called Isla Mitre (Argentina) or Isla Serrano (Chile), is an 18-mile-long island in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica, first charted by Charcot's 1903-05 expedition and renamed in 1960 for chemist Antoine Lavoisier.
Lawu
Lawu (Gunung Lawu, Lawoe), 3,265 m stratovolcano on the Central Java–East Java border, Indonesia; no confirmed eruptions (1885 and 1752 events discredited), fumarolic south flank, sacred mountain with Sukuh temple, excluded from geothermal work areas.
Laysan
Laysan (Kauō) is a 4.1 km² low coral sand island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands' Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, with a hypersaline lake, huge albatross colonies, endangered Laysan ducks and finches, and a history of guano mining and rabbit-driven extinctions reversed after 1923.
Le Crêt-du-Maure
Le Crêt-du-Maure (Crêt du Maure) is a wooded hill in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, the first foothill of the Semnoz, site of the medieval town and château, with a 150 ha reforested communal forest and viewpoints over Lake Annecy.
Lead Bell Shale
Lead Bell Shale: Cambrian shale formation in the Portneuf Range, southeastern Idaho, named for the abandoned Lead Bell mine; defined 1971 (USGS PP 394); overlies Twin Knobs Formation, underlies Bancroft Limestone, middle Middle Cambrian.
Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection) Formation
Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection) amber deposit, Hammana-Mdeyrij, Baabda District, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon; Early Barremian (~125 Ma) Lebanese amber in clay-sandstone of the Chouf Sandstone-Abeih boundary, rich in hymenopteran and other arthropod inclusions from araucariaceous or cheirolepidiaceous conifers.
Lebombo Mountains
Lebombo Mountains (Lubombo), a ~500 km rhyolite-capped range in Mozambique, Eswatini, and South Africa, forming the Lebombo monocline of the Karoo Large Igneous Province, erupted around 182 Ma during Gondwana breakup.
Ledyakaya
Ledyakaya, more commonly spelled Ledyanaya (Ледяная, "Icy"), is a glacier-capped peak in the Koryak Mountains of the Russian Far East and the range's highest point at 2,562 m.